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About

(c) Alexander de Cadenet

In 1996, a friend took me to my first ever yoga class in NYC.

I had no idea what yoga was. All that I can really remember about that class was that I laughed long and hard throughout, because I found all the lying around on the floor doing noisy deep-breathing absolutely bonkers…and very, very funny. Actually – hilarious.

It turned out that the last laugh was on me.

In 2001, the yoga bug bit me hard. In 2007 I completed the British Wheel of Yoga Foundation Course 1 and in 2008 spent a month at Kripalu, doing their 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training with Brahmani and Jashoda. It was a life changing experience.

When I came back to the UK I then spent a year studying Pilates with Alan Herdman and gained my instructor’s qualification. In my opinion, Pilates is an amazing tool for deepening one’s yoga practice and, importantly, keeping it safe.

I taught yoga for several years – both at organisations and privately. The truth was, I found it a real challenge as teaching asanas isn’t in my comfort zone.

I now realise that teaching yoga was life’s way of keeping me out of trouble until I found my true vocation…you can see my professional website here and I do incorporate some yoga into what I’m doing. It’s not impossible there’ll be a return to teaching at some point. We’ll see.

However, yoga remains a passion. I believe deeply in it as a means of keeping mentally, physically and spiritually healthy. Or, to put it more simply, it just makes me feel great and glad to be alive.